The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has revised online tutorials that help researchers and others use the
agency’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). HCUP, the nation’s
most comprehensive source of hospital data, includes national and state
data on inpatient care, ambulatory care and emergency department visits.
The updated
HCUP Overview Course
provides information about the sources of HCUP data, features of the
database, software tools and products. Additional tutorials instruct users
on...